Several U of I creative writing alums have been making waves with new book publications and awards in 2014!
A new story collection by Aaron Burch (MFA '11), Backswing, appeared in February from Queen's Ferry Press.
Matthew Gavin Frank's (BA '98) newest book, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (Norton/Liveright), was published in July.
Lara Mann's (MFA '09) first poetry collection has been published as part of Effigies II (Salt Publishing), a collective of debut poetry books by American Indian women poets. Effigies II also appeared in July.
Matthew Minicucci, (MFA '10), received the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and his debut poetry collection, No Epithets, will be published by Kent State University Press in 2015.
Other forthcoming alumni books include Andrew Ervin's (MFA '08) second book of fiction and first novel, Burning Down George Orwell's House, which will be published by Soho Press in 2015; and Ted Sander's (BA '04, MFA '07) The Box in the Dragonfly, his second book and first for younger readers, forthcoming from HarperCollin's Childrens in 2015.
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